Campanumcea."] LXXX. CAMPANULACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 437 



it. The flowers in C. parviflora are not always smaller than in C. celebica, but they 

 seem always 4-merous, while the flowers of C. celebica appear invariably 5-6-merous ; 

 a character of little weight in Campanulacece. 



PERACARFA, //./. $ T. 



A slender prostrate herb. Leaves alternate and opposite, petioled, ovate. 

 Pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, clustered or solitary. Flowers small, purple or 

 white. Calyx superior ; teeth 5, oblong-linear, persistent. Corolla campanu- 

 late, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, free from the corolla. Ovary inferior, 3-celled. 

 Fruit dry, indehiscent, white, membranous, 3- (or 2-1-) celled, 6-30-seeded. 

 Seeds fusiform-ellipsoid, dark brown, smooth. 



1. P. carnosa, JS. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 26. Campanula 

 carnosa, Wall. Cat. 1282, cmd in Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ed. Carey fy Wall. ii. 102; 

 DC. Prodr. vii. 474. 



KUMAON to BHOTAN; alt. 5-11,000 ft., in wet places frequent. KHASIA MTS. ; 

 alt. 5-6000 ft., H.f. $ T. 



A very weak, succulent herb, 3-8 in., branching. Leaves \-% in., obtuse or acute, 

 entire or crenate, glabrous or scabrid ; petiole -% in. Pedicels sometimes 1 in. soli- 

 tary, sometimes clustered and less than ~ in. Calyx-teeth ~ in. Corolla - in. 

 Fruit -J by ^- in., sack -like, often unsymmetric by the suppression of one cell. 



10. FENTAFHRAQIKA, Watt. 



Perennial herbs ; stem short, sparingly branched. Leaves alternate, large, 

 often very unequal at the base. Spikes dense, scorpioid, shortly peduncled ; 

 flowers in two ranks ; bracts membranous, short. Calyx superior ; lobes 5, 

 long, obtuse, persistent. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, white. Stamens 5, 

 epigynous, free ; anthers ovate. Ovary inferior, 3-5-celled ; style short, cylin- 

 dric, stigma peltate obscurely 3-5-lobed. Berry inferior. Seeds very many, 

 small, testa prominently reticulated. Species 3, Malayan. 



1. P. beg-onlaefolium, Wall. Cat. 1313 ; leaves ovate serrate, calyx-teeth 

 in. subquadrate-oblong obtuse, fruit -^ in. turbinate ellipsoid, A. DC. Prodr. 

 vii. 496; H.f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 26 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 201. Phyteuma begonifolium, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 85 ; Fl. Ind. i. 505 ; Jack 

 in Hook. But. Misc. i. 276, t. 57. 



MERGTJI, Griffith. PENANG and SINGAPORE, Roxburgh, &c. 



Stem 6-12 in., succulent, scabrous-villous. Leaves 6-8 by 4-5 in. ovate with the 

 base excised on one side, cordate and auricled on the other ; or oblong base equal and 

 cuneate ; scabrous-pilose on the nerves beneath, otherwise nearly glabrous ; petiole 

 -1 in. Peduncle -1 in., lateral near the summit of the stem, carrying 1-3 ovate 

 alternate sessile bracts in. diam. Sjpf&e 1-4 in. ; bracts 2-ranked, obovate or 

 elliptic, ^ in. long ; bracts ovary and calyx weakly villous. Corolla -1 in. long and 

 broad, lobes deep, broad, obtuse. This genus is unlike other Campanulace<s in habit ; 

 and P. begonifpfolium so simulates Epithema (Cyrtandracea} in leaves and inflore- 

 scence, that these plants are mixed under Wall. Cat. 1313. 



11. SPHENOCLEA, Gaertn. 



An annual, erect herb. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, entire. Spikes lateral 

 and terminal, peduncled, cylindricj dStfse-fld., apex conical. Floioers small, 

 sessile; bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Calyx ^-inferior; limb 5-fid, segments 

 ovate. Corolla campanulate, epigynous, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, on the corolla, 



